Most recent movie you saw

[Eurisko]

I went to see the Sonic The Hedgehog movie last night and wow!! What an amazing job they've done with it. 

Very fun movie , I highly recommend.

[Summer Deep]

Phantasm (1979)

 

WTF? Made a bit more sense than the first time I saw it, but that's not saying a lot....

[TwinBeast]

Hotel Transylvania 1 and 2. They were funny. Made me laugh. Made me miss wearing red converses. Unexpectedly violent ending for the second movie. Pizza and company was great with the movies.

[Megalyth]

7 hours ago, Eurisko said:

I went to see the Sonic The Hedgehog movie last night and wow!! What an amazing job they've done with it. 

Very fun movie , I highly recommend.

 

It definitely delivered. I'll be getting it on Blu Ray when it's available as well. It's well worth owning.

[stinkfist]

Friday 1995

[Hellbent]

On 2/14/2020 at 5:40 PM, Scorpius said:

1917. One of the best films I've seen in ages.

I thought the cinematography was stunning; high art, but the rest of the film was fairly average. Now Ford V Ferrari was a very good movie, one of the best films I've seen in ages.

[morrigan]

Catching up with classics so watched Martin Scorsese's Casino. I loved every second of it. The story was like a trainwreck in slow motion (sorry for the cliche) - Every terrible decision that was possible in a given situation, the heroes made.

I love De Niro and Pesci, but mad props to Sharon Stone for portraying such a character...

[seed]

More than one, actually. Don't Deliver Us From Evil, Alucarda, and Sudden Impact.

 

First two mostly out of curiosity and I was in the mood for something goofy and blasphemous - yea, wasn't actually looking for something great -, and Sudden Impact, because I don't recall actually watching anything with Clint Eastwood in it, missed the classics, so I wanna catch up with them. "Go ahead, make my day." :D.

 

I think I'll watch Tightrope next. Sudden Impact was just epic 💜.

[Jello]

I watched "The Dead Don't Die". I figured there was no way it could be terrible if it had Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, and Tom Waits in a zombie movie. Well, Jim Jarmusch managed to fuck it up. The pacing is terrible, the dialogue is terrible and breaks the fourth wall multiple times. Murray, Buscemi, and Waits, and all the other actors did their best to make it a good movie. Murray was great as the tired sheriff, Buscemi was great as the Maga patriot, Waits was great as the hermit, but it never ended up being a cohesive film.

 

Then I looked at Jarmusch's film history, and I've certainly heard of him, but I realized I've never actually liked a single movie that he's ever made. It's a shame to waste that much talent on such a poorly directed film.

[BluePineapple72]

I did a triple feature Wednesday. I started out the afternoon with Only Lovers Left Alive. All I remember from that is that is was a little snobby, Tom Hiddeston was in it, Tilda Swinnton’s boobs were in it, and I was bored. Fine film. Cool visuals and shit. 
 

Later that night I watched Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Beautiful film. And German! Other than the audio sounding kinda bad, I enjoyed it a lot! I recommend viewing it. 
 

Directly after that, I watched The Last Picture Show. Holy shit. I always love the feeling of being blown away, and this film did exactly that. It was amazing I must say, incredibly jarring too. It was filmed in 1971 (1? 2?), but it used the techniques and technologies of the 50s to tell a story about small town American in that time period. Only they didn’t sugar coat shit. People fuck. Titties come out. You watch as people have meltdowns because of their ghost town isolation. Quite the film! Out of the three I definitely recommend that one the most. 

[Clippy]

Kingsman movies I fuckin love em

[Maximum Matt]

Just watched Clerks II again the other day. Forgot how stupid it was

[seed]

A few more Client Eastwood movies, and finally finished the 1964 Addams Family series.

 

Well, one thing's for sure now, the family and this show is timeless. I am just amazed by how well it has aged, it could've come out in 2020 in 4K and it would've been no different. I rolled on the floor almost every episode thanks to the golden writing, top notch acting, jokes, and the over-the-top sound effects. I'm stunned really, and one could easily tell the cast definitely loved playing the characters - shame that only John Astin and Lisa Moring are still alive.

 

It's a shame that no one has expressed any interest in another reboot, apart from the 90s one that I watched back when I was only a wee lad - and which was, apparently, not popular enough to warrant more seasons - , there's been no movement on the front. I'd love another reboot for the 21st century. Speaking of which, I've started rewatching the 90s reboot, see how I appreciate it now when I'm an adult and how it fares compared to the 60s series. No doubt the 90s one is A LOT more corny with the effects and all - yeah it's the typical 90s kind of corny in a nutshell alright - but I'll be judging it again based on its merits and flaws, and not because it's not the 60s series 2.0.

 

After this, I think I'll start the 1963 Doctor Who series - if I can find the damn thing anywhere... I'll probably have to pirate it anyway. But damn it's LONG, how many episodes are there, almost 700? Well, I know what I'm doing this year once I find it, somewhere .

[DSC]

2 hours ago, seed said:

After this, I think I'll start the 1963 Doctor Who series - if I can find the damn thing anywhere... I'll probably have to pirate it anyway. But damn it's LONG, how many episodes are there, almost 700? Well, I know what I'm doing this year once I find it, somewhere

Unfortunately, many of the episodes from the shows black and white run are now lost thanks to BBC's junking policy way back then...

[seed]

31 minutes ago, DSC said:

Unfortunately, many of the episodes from the shows black and white run are now lost thanks to BBC's junking policy way back then...

 

Are they? I did notice Amazon has the classic series, is it not complete?

[kalaeth]

3 minutes ago, seed said:

 

Are they? I did notice Amazon has the classic series, is it not complete?

no, many are missing but they have been animating a few of them, based on scripts and audio.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/io9.gizmodo.com/old-school-doctor-who-episodes-that-everyone-should-wat-5939314/amp

here's a few that are available and considered good.

you can also just try and see all you can find. I think the first ones exist online

[DSC]

6 minutes ago, seed said:

 

Are they? I did notice Amazon has the classic series, is it not complete?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes

[seed]

33 minutes ago, kalaeth said:

no, many are missing but they have been animating a few of them, based on scripts and audio.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/io9.gizmodo.com/old-school-doctor-who-episodes-that-everyone-should-wat-5939314/amp

here's a few that are available and considered good.

you can also just try and see all you can find. I think the first ones exist online

 

So that explains the random black and white stuff I ran into earlier, I just couldn't understand what their purpose was and whether they were official material. I suppose that answers the question.

 

Shame that they got lost... I know what a pain it can be for something important to get lost because of careless holders, but I see BBC & co. are actually trying to find and restore as much as they can now. I hope they don't stop there.

[P41R47]

Friday's evening i watched Doom: Anihilation..... meh!

 

Friday's night i watched a Korean film, Bedeviled (2010), and wow! That film has a serious building up, hard to watch, with crude moment, and finaly, when the climax is reached, it is somehow, a breeze of fresh air after the oppresive situation the protagonists were living. It is labeled as a K-Horror movie, but i would say it is more fitting into realistic drama.

 

Tonight, Saturday's night i turned on the TV and they were broadcasting ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' so i give it a swirl with my wife and both have a really good time! So its true, give Freddy a call if you wanna have a good time!

[dr_st]

After seeing Glen Schofield talk on ArsTechnica how he was drawing inspiration from Event Horizon (1997) while making the first 'Dead Space' game, I got curious. Then when I saw it was directed by Paul Anderson (who also did 'Mortal Kombat', which I liked), I decide to watch the movie.

 

Wasn't disappointed. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a solid horror film, with just enough mildly disturbing content to get under your skin, but not enough to gross you out. The basic premise is indeed quite similar to 'Dead Space'. There is no character development whatsoever, but there is even a plot twist at some point.

 

Spoiler

In the beginning, the hot black guy (the one who's not Laurence Fishburne) is throwing sexual jokes at the hot blonde chick (who is also not Laurence Fishburne). Well, in the end, the two of them are the only ones left alive and basically intact. I guess they will finally get some quality time together.

 

No, that's not the plot twist I was referring to.

 

[Average]

Last night I watched The League of Gentlemen - Apocalypse (2005).  In these dark times it felt right to watch something equally as twisted.

 

Not a film but I'm going to start a binge watch of all tLoG episodes tonight.

[Havoc Crow]

As part of my ongoing exploration of Studio Ghibli films, I watched "Howl's Moving Castle" recently.

 

My feelings are... mixed. It's still got the same kind of artistry and visuals that I've come to expect from Ghibli movies, and yet, something about it falls short. Maybe it's the CGI which is all too visible in some of the scenes. And the story, frankly, is a disjointed mess... more like a series of recounted dreams than a truly coherent script.

 

It's not a terrible movie, in fact, it's definitely still above average. But it's probably my least favorite Ghibli movie so far.

[seed]

More than one this time, actually, for the first time in the recent past I kinda have a plan for stuff I want to watch in the near future. Last two days I've watched Night of the Livind Dead, The Return of the Living Dead, and Dracula, the classic starring Bela Lugosi.

 

The Living Dead movies were quite awesome and fun to watch, and it's fun to see how the military killed the population in the infested areas in the second movie, and there's basically no survivors as they are understood today. The last survivor is shot on sight inside the house in the first, and in the second they nuke the city. RIP. These movies were quite charming honestly, coming from a time before zombies turned into such a giant cliche and there still was some terror left in them. The '60s vibes of the first movie were groovy as hell too. And I loved the fact thst the zombies actually fucking speak in the second, and they're well voiced no less. The talking female torso that was tied in the morgue was surprisingly chill, and the "More Brains" guy in the basement was also really cool.

 

Now for Dracula, suffice to say this movie was unique, and also the closest we've probably ever got to the source material. Breath of fresh air for sure after how cliche have vampires and vampire movies in general become nowadays, with a more human and charming presentation that isn't soaked in CGI just to be believable. Oh, and finally another take where Van Helsing is NOT an OP vampire hunter (ironically, the last time I've seen him appear more like a normal person - or as normal as it gets anyway -, was in the Hellsing anime/manga).

 

As for my plans, I'm going to watch more Dracula movies, in chronological order, and although it really isn't a habit of mine at all, I will sort them by ratings this time. With these movies I very much doubt the ratings are too inaccurate, so what reaches like a 6.2 or below is probably not worth bothering at all (or are they? You never know, I've enjoyed low-rated stuff before, but right now I don't have time to sort this mess out, unless someone can tell me).

 

But first, the classic 1940s movie Dead of Night. After that, the Hannibal movies, the TV series at some point, some of the Nosferatu movies (seen the 1920s classic a few years ago, cool stuff), some Frankenstein's, Phantasia, True Blood, The Raid, some Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde titles, and more movies starring Clint Eastwood and Chow Yun Fat. Yeah, this should keep me busy for a while.

[Billy Baron]

 I saw John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars". It was pretty good. He (JC) directed all of the music, so the score was one positive aspect of the show. The casting was good too. Not to mention the art which totally fit the sci-fi genre we're talking about. The writing touches on some familiar feelings that goes over well, like some Matrix looking stuff. It kind of reminded me a little of Total Recall, but maybe that's because it was on Mars too. Don't want to spoil it for anyone ;-)
  But alas, this one isn't as family friendly as your garden variety Star Wars movie, so a little "necessary roughness" is present. 

 

 I say watch it.

 

 

[hybridial]

On 5/29/2020 at 8:47 PM, seed said:

But first, the classic 1940s movie Dead of Night. After that, the Hannibal movies, the TV series at some point, some of the Nosferatu movies (seen the 1920s classic a few years ago, cool stuff), some Frankenstein's, Phantasia, True Blood, The Raid, some Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde titles, and more movies starring Clint Eastwood and Chow Yun Fat. Yeah, this should keep me busy for a while.

 

The Hannibal TV series was surprisingly good.

 

Also, I just watched The Omen, which well, I once caught it on TV maybe about 40% of the way into it so that time there was the first time from full start to finish. Very good movie, loved Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack, would recommend that on your list, and if you haven't seen them, The Howling, Angel Heart, An American Werewolf in London, Nightbreed and Hellraiser are musts for classic 80s horror. 

 

And then when you're done with convention, Italian horror is like, the next step on that particular roller coaster, with Phenomena and Suspiria I find to be particularly notable. 

[seed]

5 hours ago, hybridial said:

The Hannibal TV series was surprisingly good.

 

Also, I just watched The Omen, which well, I once caught it on TV maybe about 40% of the way into it so that time there was the first time from full start to finish. Very good movie, loved Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack, would recommend that on your list, and if you haven't seen them, The Howling, Angel Heart, An American Werewolf in London, Nightbreed and Hellraiser are musts for classic 80s horror. 

 

And then when you're done with convention, Italian horror is like, the next step on that particular roller coaster, with Phenomena and Suspiria I find to be particularly notable. 

 

I've seen some of those actually, such as The Howling (also an example of a franchise that should've stopped at the first movie, none of the sequels are on par), American Werewolf in London (same thing, AWIP is... uh), and Hellraiser, I think I've seen some sequels there as well.

 

I'll be sure to check the other movies when I get the chance, so far I've managed to build a list of stuff to watch, and I'm gonna have to finish it first, if I expect anything to get done.

[seed]

Alright, so I've watched Event Horizon, MK Annihilation, and the Indiana Jones series.

 

Event Horizon: This movie seems to get a lot of praise and love for supposedly being the closest we're ever getting to a Doom movie. But having watched it last night, frankly, I'll kinda have to rain on the parade here. Apart from the existence of Marines, I've found exactly zero common ground between the two. There's no gun action whatsoever, and the "demons" - if you can even call them that - barely make any appearances. It was pretty fucked to see how the ship changed Weir to the point they've essentially made him one of theirs - that "Pure Evil" moment and the end were awesome too -, and how the ship became sentient after going to "hell", but this only brings me to my next point - it is, out of everything, closest to Alien and particularly Hellraiser than anything Doom related. This is especially visible in the similar torture and mutilation techniques employed by the Hellraisers, but regarding the creatures, a key difference would be that, at least in the first HR movies, they don't actually advertise themselves as "beyond evil", unlike the creatures, and later on Weir, do in EH, in fact they seduce people with "pleasures" first, if I recall correctly. It was overall a pretty solid movie, and I like it for what it is, but, excuse the blasphemy, but I unironically think that Doom 2005 was more Doom-like than EH was. Naturally, the absolutely idiotic plot and the replacement of demons with mutants is what killed off that movie completely, but it had action and especially the evocative locations and atmosphere that were more Doom-like. Doom 2005 is not a good Doom movie, no fuck no, but it does have its merits. EH is overall a better movie by a long shot, there is zero doubt here, but it's definitely not "the closest we're ever getting to a Doom movie" in my book, as so many seem to consider it. Unsurprisingly I've also noticed that there's various fan theories that try to connect HR with EH, and personally that makes perfect sense to me considering the striking similarities. In fact, I think the universe (funny) of EH and HR are basically just different faces of the same coin.

 

MK Annihilation: Now this movie is quite infamous apparently and gets a shit ton of hate. But personally? Honestly I think that while yes, it most certainly is a downgrade from the first MK movie, primarily in the cast department - oh my god what have they done with Shao Kahn, he's literally a dumbass in this movie, and also looks like one, same for Motaro -, the fact that the plot is also weaker, "human Raiden" was a lol moment in terms of look, and the CGI was really bad at times, the fight scenes and acting were on par with the original, if not even better at times. It was good fun for what it was honestly, and while it surely isn't as good as the first MK movie, I also didn't find it to really be the dumpster fire to many seem to consider it. In fact, it would've been much better if the plot was better written and some of the cast choices were also wiser.

 

Indiana Jones: Not much to say here, heard about the series for an awful lot of time and I figured I would finally watch it. Wasn't disappointed, and "Indy" was definitely more awesome than I expected. Out of the first three movies, Temple of Doom is definitely going to be my favorite, the Kali cultists, the temple itself, and so on were just epic in that one.

[dr_st]

23 minutes ago, seed said:

Event Horizon: This movie seems to get a lot of praise and love for supposedly being the closest we're ever getting to a Doom movie.

Never heard anyone say that. Are you sure it's not a fringe opinion? It's really nothing like Doom at all. Who are "the many" that seem to consider it?

 

26 minutes ago, seed said:

while it surely isn't as good as the first MK movie, I also didn't find it to really be the dumpster fire to many seem to consider it. In fact, it would've been much better if the plot was better written and some of the cast choices were also wiser.

That's like saying that a bowl of celery would be much tastier if you remove the celery and replace it with nachos. The movie is what it is. To me it's one of those movies that caused me as the viewer to actually feel embarrassed for the crew who worked on it. And yes, it can still be entertaining in a bizarre way.

 

If you haven't read the "Abridged Scripts" of the MK movies, I strongly suggest that you do. They are hilarious and really capture the essence of both films in many ways:

https://www.the-editing-room.com/mk1.html

https://www.the-editing-room.com/mk2.html

 

Actually the one for the Event Horizon is quite good too:

https://www.the-editing-room.com/event-horizon.html

[seed]

23 minutes ago, dr_st said:

Never heard anyone say that. Are you sure it's not a fringe opinion? It's really nothing like Doom at all. Who are "the many" that seem to consider it?

 

Kinda. I've definitely seen this notion popping up here as well in random places, so it's not a "me" thing, nor did it happen just once.

 

23 minutes ago, dr_st said:

That's like saying that a bowl of celery would be much tastier if you remove the celery and replace it with nachos. The movie is what it is. To me it's one of those movies that caused me as the viewer to actually feel embarrassed for the crew who worked on it. And yes, it can still be entertaining in a bizarre way.

 

Well see, that's where we disagree then. For me it wasn't really that terribad. It's not good, not bad either in my book. Really all it needed was no human Raiden scene, or if there should've been one, he should've looked completely different than he did, a different cast for Kahn, and no "Kahn's Raiden brother" bullshit. Better CGI could be a welcome change as well, but I can live with that.

[Billy Baron]

I saw the first Puppet Master. This movie is nothing short of visually stunning. It has a style that both reflects the decade it came from and elements of a psychosis that speak directly from the cortex that it inhabits. It is also very stylishly (tastefully) written. The acting isn't immature at all. 

  It seemed a little short, but that may be due to the kind of trippy atmosphere of the movie; Nobody ever wants to sober up. It wasn't that short at all.

 Does this movie stack up to it's status? It does. Being from that decade, hits like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street were King. And now we have so much more with Rob Zombie's Halloween. It fits right in with "The Gate" or "Toxic Avenger". 

  You could just imagine what it must have been like to have been 15 or 20 in that decade, watching hits like this; He/She probably became a Vampire or something.

 

   But it's 2020 and the fear never fades away long enough for you to dye your hair black and join the occult. Or something.